[AndrewUnmuted]

It's obvious what is being conveyed here, and I question the intellectual honesty of your statement. I posit that by "playing dumb," you hoped to be able to convey the notion that there's no "obvious" message here.

Being on lockdown is making people ill and driving them crazy. This is being compounded by the cognitive dissonance embraced by half of the media-consuming world, which is telling them that their attacker is a respiratory virus, and not their local, state, and national governments.

Many people live in a society today where, saying this to the wrong person could get you injured, ostracized, or even killed - or, you may even get branded with the worst noun of all: racist. Anxiety is clearly through the roof everywhere you turn - now, I wonder why this is?

Are we actually going to go around thinking that these high-anxiety times haven't contributed to peoples' illnesses?

[sangli]

I hope you are not so cocksure in every part of your life. It helps sometimes to understand what the other person is saying in more details than jumping to conclusions and then responding with emotions.

I take it that you are challenging my intellectual honesty, I am unsure about your intellectual curiosity.

[AndrewUnmuted]

There was nothing more that had to be said by the parent. You were - quite clearly - trying to discredit the parent poster for making a very reasonable statement.

I am not moved at all by your "hopes." I am quite certain that I am right. I would not have written anything, otherwise. But of course, that's none of your business - my words are more than enough to convey the meaning I intend, as are yours, and as were the parent poster's.

My intellectual curiosity is what allowed me to land on both of my feet and look at the COVID situation for what it really is. It wasn't hard and it only takes some "distancing" from corporate media sources to see what's going on.